{"id":12332,"date":"2025-11-26T03:22:29","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T08:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=12332"},"modified":"2025-11-26T03:22:29","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T08:22:29","slug":"wed-nov-26-2025-cooking-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2025\/11\/26\/wed-nov-26-2025-cooking-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Wed. Nov. 26, 2025 &#8211; cooking today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A bit cooler, and clear today.  It got chilly last night.  I still expect it to be high 80sF or even into the 90sF like yesterday by late afternoon though.<\/p>\n<p>I was less productive than I&#8217;d hoped on Tuesday.  I did get the grocery shopping done. That&#8217;s a good thing.  <\/p>\n<p>Today should be more small tasks and cooking pies, as well as getting prepped for tomorrow&#8217;s feast.   We are cutting back on sides for Thanksgiving dinner, but there will still be some french meat pie, and several dessert pies.  And a 12 pound bird.   <\/p>\n<p>And while I feel like a slacker that we didn&#8217;t go to the BOL, this is a much more relaxing plan.  <\/p>\n<p>I feel the need to adjust to the kids&#8217; plans and to encourage the desire to work that D1 seems to have found. Building good kids is sort of the ultimate prep, so I&#8217;m trying to be flexible.  We have much to be thankful for, and where we celebrate that thankfulness isn&#8217;t as important as taking the time to do so.  Besides, if you are smart, you take your joy where you find it.  <\/p>\n<p>Build.  Improve.  Stack. Live.<\/p>\n<p>nick<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bit cooler, and clear today.  It got chilly last night.  I still expect it to be high 80sF or even into the 90sF like yesterday by late afternoon though.<\/p>\n<p>I was less productive than I&#8217;d hoped on Tuesday.  I did get the grocery shopping done. That&#8217;s a good thing.  <\/p>\n<p>Today should be more small tasks and cooking pies, as well as getting prepped for tomorrow&#8217;s feast.   We are cutting back on sides for Thanksgiving dinner,<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2025\/11\/26\/wed-nov-26-2025-cooking-today\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more about: Wed. Nov. 26, 2025 &#8211; cooking today &nbsp;&raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,15,83,96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cookingbaking","category-culture","category-decline-and-fall","category-lakehouse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12332"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12334,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12332\/revisions\/12334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}